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https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/history/history.html
Highlights from History:
6th Century—Increased trade with China and Korea brings smallpox to Japan.
7th Century—Arab expansion spreads smallpox into northern Africa, Spain, and Portugal.
11th Century—Crusades further spread smallpox in Europe.
15th Century—Portugal occupies part of western Africa, bringing smallpox.
16th Century—European settlers and the African slave trade import smallpox into:
The Caribbean
Central and South America
17th Century—European settlers bring smallpox to North America.
18th Century—Explorers from Great Britain bring smallpox to Australia.
18th Century - 1796 when the English doctor Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox were protected from smallpox.
19th Century - 1801, Jenner published his treatise “On the Origin of the Vaccine Inoculation
20th Century - In 1959, the World Health Organization (WHO) started a plan to rid the world of smallpox
20th Century - In late 1975, three-year-old Rahima Banu from Bangladesh was the last person in the world to have naturally acquired variola major.
20th Century - 33rd World Health Assembly declared the world free of this disease on May 8, 1980
Highlights from History:
6th Century—Increased trade with China and Korea brings smallpox to Japan.
7th Century—Arab expansion spreads smallpox into northern Africa, Spain, and Portugal.
11th Century—Crusades further spread smallpox in Europe.
15th Century—Portugal occupies part of western Africa, bringing smallpox.
16th Century—European settlers and the African slave trade import smallpox into:
The Caribbean
Central and South America
17th Century—European settlers bring smallpox to North America.
18th Century—Explorers from Great Britain bring smallpox to Australia.
18th Century - 1796 when the English doctor Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox were protected from smallpox.
19th Century - 1801, Jenner published his treatise “On the Origin of the Vaccine Inoculation
20th Century - In 1959, the World Health Organization (WHO) started a plan to rid the world of smallpox
20th Century - In late 1975, three-year-old Rahima Banu from Bangladesh was the last person in the world to have naturally acquired variola major.
20th Century - 33rd World Health Assembly declared the world free of this disease on May 8, 1980
